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South Sudan claims civil war is over but skepticism abounds

  NYAL: South Sudan's government claims the shattering five-year civil war is finally over, but there is considerable skepticism. It wasn't helped by the sight...

Huge hospital blaze kills 41 in South Korea: official sources

SEOUL: A huge fire tore through a South Korean hospital Friday killing at least 41 people and injured more than 70, the government said,...

Over 200,000 Malaysian organ donors personal details leaked: report

KUALA LUMPUR: Personal details of over 200,000 Malaysian organ donors and their next of kin have been leaked, with the data available online for...

Al Qaeda leader calls for killing Jews, Americans over Jerusalem

YEMEN: A senior al Qaeda leader has called on Muslims "everywhere" to rise up and kill Jews and Americans in response to US President...

Haitians stage protest over Trump’s racist comments

PORT-AU-PRINCE: About two thousand people took to the streets of Haiti’s capital on Monday to protest comments attributed to US President Donald Trump about...

Israel won’t prosecute envoy guard over Jordan shootings

JERUSALEM: Israel will not prosecute a guard from its embassy in Amman who killed two Jordanians in July, as had long been demanded by...

Four people killed over family strife in Mianwali

MIANWALI: At least four persons of a family including man, wife, his daughter, and mother were killed in a clashed between two families in...

Boucher to plea guilty against charges over assaulting US Senator

KENTUCKY: A Kentucky man accused of attacking US Senator Rand Paul outside his home has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of assaulting a...

Japan condemns US military flights over Okinawa school

TOKYO: Japan criticised the US military on Friday for breaking a pledge to avoid flying helicopters over a school next to its base in...

California couple held over torturing 13 children due in court

CALIFORNIA: A California couple arrested on suspicion of torture was due in court on Thursday after investigators discovered they were holding their 13 malnourished...

Serbian police arrest 3 Australians over $400 million cocaine case

BELGRADE: Authorities in Serbia have arrested three Australian citizens as part of a joint investigation with Australian police in connection with the second-largest seizure of...

Trump ceded control over business ties, one year on

FLORIDA: A year ago Donald Trump ceded control of The Trump Organisation to his adult sons, but refused to divest his assets, sparking a...

Russian priest charged over child molesting for 14 years prison

ST PETERSBURG: The Priozersky City Court in Russia’s Leningrad region has sentenced priest Gleb Grozovsky to 14 years in a high-security penal colony for...

Thailand: Military court drops royal insult case of over 17th century...

BANGKOK: Thailand’s military court on Wednesday dropped the prosecution of an 85-year-old academic who had been accused of royal insult for questioning the truth...

Chile: Pope asks forgiveness over sex-abuse scandal

SANTIAGO: Pope Francis, arriving in Chile to begin a three-day visit, opened his trip by asking for forgiveness over a local priest-abuse scandal that...

Ex-US Navy officers face charges over deadly ship collisions

WASHINGTON: The commanding officers of two US Navy destroyers involved in deadly collisions last year in the Pacific Ocean face courts-martial and military criminal...

Two dead over old enmity in Dera Murad Jamali

DERA MURAD JAMALI: A woman among two people died and two others were injured when armed men of rival group stormed a residential house...